Nonfiction

Memoir

Writing

Unpublished journal entries
Annie Ernaux
Objects of Desire

My Screenshots

In search of lost memes
Sarah Thankam Mathews
The Moment

The Birthday Party No One Wants

Why Americans aren't celebrating the semiquincentennial
Samuel Moyn
Essays

The End of Books

What happened when a dumpster arrived behind my university's library
Sheila Liming
Ideas

Reading the Declaration of Independence as Holy Text

How the American creed emerged—and evolved—over 250 years
Kathryn Lofton
Essays

Toni Morrison’s Native Figures

A new reading of race in her novels
Namwali Serpell

Browse

Nonfiction

A Closer Look

Kafka's Double Portrait

What a pencil sketch reveals about the writer’s view of his mother
Lynne Tillman
March 25, 2025
Books

Vanity Fair’s Heyday

I was once paid six figures to write an article—now what?
Bryan Burrough
March 14, 2025
Portfolio

“Channel, 2019–24”

Capturing Los Angeles in crisis
Sasha Rudensky
March 11, 2025
Essays

A Unified Theory of the Handbag

Was an accessory the secret to evolution?
Audrey Wollen
March 11, 2025
Art

Finding the Real in Photorealism

Do we want art to transform our lives?
Jonathan Griffin
March 11, 2025
Objects of Desire

My Mother’s Ashtray

When I lost her, I lost a world
Jonathan Lethem
March 11, 2025
The Moment

Reading During a Genocide

What Etel Adnan's novel taught me
Isabella Hammad
March 11, 2025
Memoir

Scenes from Childhood

The unseen world of the great playwright
Adrienne Kennedy
March 11, 2025
Essays

The Broken Cadillac

When you wish you could refuse an inheritance
Jennifer Stock
March 11, 2025
Essays

The Comforts of Geological Time

How to grieve when you don’t know how
Edmée Lepercq
March 11, 2025